Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
- ISBN13: 9781580052764
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
It’s time to get past the idea that divorce equals failure. Sure, it may not be what you had in mind when you walked down the aisle, but if it’s the escape hatch into a better life, it should be filled with more promise. It can be celebrated.
Ask Me About My Divorce is a spicy, fun, riveting collection of essays by women from all walks of life. With the unifying thread “I got divorced, and the world came into view,” the words within will make readers laugh, cry, nod their heads, and feel inspired to do what they need to for themselves. These aren’t stories from women tiptoeing around a difficult subject — they’re about the ways divorce can be, in fact, a new lease on life.
Ask Me About My Divorce is a spicy, fun, riveting collection of essays by women from all walks of life. With the unifying thread “I got divorced, and the world came into view,” the words within will make readers laugh, cry, nod their heads, and feel inspired to do what they need to for themselves. These aren’t stories from women tiptoeing around a difficult subject — they’re about the ways divorce can be, in fact, a new lease on life.
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
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This book is full of compelling and hopeful stories – but they are almost all stories from the perspective of being in marriages that were deadening and where the woman feels a sense of freedom, whether the one left or the one leaving. These are NOT good stories for someone who has NOT wanted the divorce, who has been betrayed and shocked in the betrayal (with the exception of R M Hora’s Sita’s eyes.) None of these stories involve women who spend a year crying for what is lost, for the actual beloved husband, for the injury of lies, or betrayals. Yes there are lies and betrayals, and courageous handling of them in good stories, but not the betrayal of soul and heart. Each woman tells the story of a divorce that seems ‘for the best’ very quickly. Those women don’t know what to say to the ‘how tragic’ or ‘I’m sorry’ of people, when that doesn’t match the experience. But they are not such good stories for those who are caught in grief. When you are in that place, this book triggers lots of anger and sadness at the other side of comments, the ones that tell you to ‘enjoy your freedom’ ‘you’ll find someone else’ ‘it’s time to stop crying’ ‘it’s time to start dating’ when you are still in shock and grieving. Those women will find themselves feeling once more berated for not being happy, for not moving on, for not getting over it fast enough. If you’ve really been dumped and betrayed, then this book will make you cry. A better book about the slow process of coming back to life after betrayal is Dominique Browning Around the House and In the Garden.
Rating: 3 / 5
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
When I first leafed through this book in our local independent bookstore, I loved the excerpts I skimmed. My eyes lingered on the story “Birth,” which I read more closely. Learning and teaching through analogy so solidifies a lesson. This excerpt shows the author’s profound ability to convey her own lessons, through which she has lived and discovered meaning, to encourage others. Based on this excerpt, just yesterday I sent this book to a friend who is going through a divorce, but I can’t wait to read the entire book myself!
Rating: 4 / 5
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
The women in these 29 moving essays went through divorces that were sometimes devastating or brutal, but in hindsight, usually inevitable. In some, the women initiated the divorce; in others, they were blindsided by it. Yet all the writers found themselves on a path to self-discovery that was far more enriching and joyful than their marriages had been.
As I read, I was swept away into the worlds of these courageous women who reinvented themselves after their divorces. Many of us remember our own divorces with the revelation that we would not have become the people we are if we had not followed that path, willingly or not.
Joan Price, author Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty
Rating: 5 / 5
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
It’s so encouraging to read these stories, written by women who didn’t let their heartbreak destroy them. Kudos to all of you writers! You’ve given the divorced and hurting a new tool that will help them get over the often worst time of their lives!
Rating: 5 / 5
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On
This incredibly gripping book is filled with a myriad of experiences from women of all walks of life. It is at times sad, at times humorous, equally captivating and filled with emotion. I think any woman–married, divorced, or merely seeking–can relate to these accounts and see a piece of herself amongst the brave ladies who have walked along the winding path of divorce, and came out on the other side, not completely unscathed, but all the better and stronger b/c of the journey and the lessons learned.
The individual stories drew me in immediately…and I found myself alongside the writers, feeling and yearning and building strength.
This book is about finding one’s self, and while it centers on the experience of divorce as a means to self-discovery, it is a journey of rebirth in which we can all relate.
I give it an exuberant thumb’s up, and intend to buy more copies for my friends who I know will feel as empowered after reading it as I did.
Rating: 5 / 5
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On